map update 2017.2 too large for device

Hello All:

Apropos of this 'problem' of the 660's internal memory being too small to hold the complete (Nordkapp to Gibraltar, Iceland to White Russia) current version of City Navigator Europe:

May I suggest that rather than loading everything onto a SD card and running off that, you will get much faster performance from the 660 if you just do a 'regional' load into the device's internal memory. By faster performance, I mean faster boot-up, way faster map redraw, and voice prompts for course changes will begin a few seconds earlier than they will when running off a SD card.

You can do a regional load into your internal memory using Garmin Express. The procedure is as follows:

1) Remove the SD card from the slot in your 660 and set it off to one side.

2) Connect the 660 to your computer, start Garmin Express, and select either 'update maps' (if appropriate) or 'reinstall maps'. If you have been using a SD card in the past, chances are that the maps present in your device's memory are from the era when everything would fit into the internal memory - back when the world was still flat. So don't be surprised if you get offered a map update first time you connect to Garmin Express after having removed the SD card.

3) Garmin Express will tell you that the complete mapset (e.g. 2018.10) won't fit into your device, and you will be offered a choice of loading a 'region'. By default, you will be offered the region corresponding with the last known position of the device, but you can select any region you want.

4) Let the download proceed. Garmin Express will notify you when it is done.

What you will now have is one region (hopefully the one that you spend 99% of your time riding in) loaded into INTERNAL memory.

What about your SD card? Well, if you want to have your cake and eat it too, put the SD card into the 660, go to Garmin Express, then download the entire friggin' European mapset onto the SD card. But - and this is the important party - after you have done this, remove the SD card from the slot and tape it to the inside of the battery door using a wee bit of Scotch transparent tape (it won't hurt the SD card). Why do this? Because you want the device to run off the maps that are loaded into the internal memory, not the maps on the SD card.

By removing the SD card and taping it to the inside of the battery door, you get the best of both worlds. 99% of the time, when you are in your home region (e.g. the UK), the device will operate at peak speed and efficiency, because it will be running off internal memory and not handicapped by having to read from the SD card. But, just in case a tornado picks you and your bike up one day and deposits you in Greece or the Balearic Islands or French Guyana, you still have that cartography available - after you sober up, just open the battery door, stuff the SD card into the slot, and turn the device on. Voila - full coverage at your disposal, albeit with slightly slower operational speeds.

Regards,

Michael

Or you could if you so wished to, download the whole of europe to your PC/MAC and do the transfer of regions via mapsource or basecamp or map install from either your PC/MAC and this way you would have all regions at your fingertips (PC/MAC) so to speak, no need to faff about downloading as you have it all.
 


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